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Nahum 3:14

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3:14Draw yourselves water for a siege!57

Strengthen your fortifications!

Trample the mud58 and tread the clay!

Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!59

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Footnotes

  1. 57 Heb “waters of siege.”
  2. 58 Heb “go into the mud.”
  3. 59 Heb “Take hold of the mud-brick mold!”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Draw water for the siege;

strengthen your forts;

go into the clay;

tread the mortar;

take hold of the brick mold!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Draw water for the siege,

strengthen your defenses!

Work the clay,

tread the mortar,

repair the brickwork!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Draw water for the siege;

strengthen your fortresses.

Step into the clay and tread the mortar;

take hold of the brick-mold!

NLTNew Living Translation

Get ready for the siege!

Store up water!

Strengthen the defenses!

Go into the pits to trample clay,

and pack it into molds,

making bricks to repair the walls.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Draw water for a siege!

Strengthen your fortifications!

Go to the mud pit!

Trample the clay!

Grasp the brick mold!

KJV 1900King James Version

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds:

Go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.